![]() ![]() Instead of life getting in the way of reading, the reading starts to get in the way of life. ![]() You sneak away from this or that, steal a few minutes here and there, find opportunities to get a few more pages in. If the book is good, you look forward to spending time alone with it. The point is that when you read a book as long as 1Q84, you don't just read it: you live with it for a while. For argument's sake, let's assume it would be closer to a month, a month in which a typical person might take 30 showers, eat 90 meals, spend maybe 200 hours at work. In fact, if you happen to have any of the following: (i) a television, (ii) access to the Internet, (iii) one or more children, (iv) regular bathing habits, or (v) gainful employment in a job where your responsibilities do not include getting paid to read books, it would probably be difficult to finish a book this long in a week, or even two. ![]() MOST PEOPLE CAN'T, or at least don't, read a 925-page book in a couple of nights. ![]()
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